it's all decided venezuela's long time president is reelected for another six years after smashing his nearest rival in a hard fought battle. the syrian government and rebels both claim success in escalating fighting us turkey again answers to cross border shelling so fears of a nato led intervention. last british action group sound the alarm over a massive new welfare cuts they're set to hit the most vulnerable families hard. crossers launching the second light of the dust bowl street by boyd ensuring gas supplies to europe for the next fifty years and doubling the pipeline its capacity for more on this joy to be the fifty but it's not.

it is one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t with josh welcome to the program now it's a liberation time for venezuela's incumbent leader in charge as who has dominated his democratic rival in a hard fought election battle for the country stop job the polls sky high turnout of over eighty percent and prove just how crucial the photo was for the nation here's our correspondent in caracas losing confidence with all the details the city is going on while this is just moments after the venezuelan electoral council announce that who got chavez will indeed be leaving the country for another six years the fireworks have been going off there's been people driving around in the streets people have gathered on the presidential palace to just celebrate this this victory for who the child is but we do have to keep in mind that this was an.

credibly closely contended election the president had won by about fifty four percent of the vote that means about a million vote difference with his opponent in the premiss what's been really fascinating to watch especially after coming from the west is the amount of excitement and energy that we've seen on the streets here people have actually taken to the streets at about three am hours before the polls even opened to celebrate to line up while we were covering the actual voting process there were lines going literally around blocks despite that polls had stayed open much later than expected it's been a really really closely contended election and for quite some time it was unclear who would emerge as the winner has been fairly calm right now but again because it's such a closely contested election it's quite possible that we will see tension in the coming weeks and months we have to keep in mind that the inauguration won't happen till january and there's a lot of potential for for the supporters who are discontented with with president chavez to take to the streets we certainly won't see the country calming down

anytime soon and for a closer look at what president hugo chavez is victory actually means for venezuelans and why there is such a massive popular support for the president with the following report running water electricity and a real home having spent most of her life in venezuela slums these are luxuries that anna silva could only dream of before going to when i got this department i just couldn't believe it i thought my eyes were deceiving me i'm thankful to the government for helping people like me she was able to move her family into this home thanks to a housing program established under president hugo chavez. it's one of the many projects that has earned him tremendous popular support among the poor but alienated him from other voters the latter have turned out in droves to vote for him to come three liss a wealthy businessman and a free market advocate who is pushing for more private enterprise and investment critics fear that he would bring an end to that as well as twenty first century socialism so what we're looking for ongoing our fruits. by the auld venezuelan

ruling class to turn back the clock to represents the past he represents an attempt to move venezuela away from a past that focuses attention on reducing inequality reducing poverty. but whether chavez has addressed that in the best way remains a question dollars haven't helped bring down the crime rate one of the worst in the world while on employment and a stagnating economy has turned many away from el commandante today when as well has corruption deficits we are some of the poorest people we want. this has been accused of authoritarianism suppressing the courts and silencing critics in the press. another burning issue in the country is equality of employment among the poor the government does implement measures to support them but there are no jobs for those in the deepest poverty they receive government subsidies but there isn't enough investment both government and private to actually provide them with well

paid jobs instead of just giving financial aid. it for the long neglected residents of venezuela slums free services may just trump over freedom this is wrong as well as body a part of the largest slum in all of latin america for decades the thousands of venezuelans who live here had no access to any sort of medical care that is until i saw the social program to open clinics like this one here and as well as get access to doctors kept up medical services free medicine for free here they helped me along to thank god and this community has helped a lot of people and a lot of children here thank you to chavez has done a lot for us those missions are just incredible. these are illegal settlements in the shacks and buildings are poorly built and for decades infrastructure was virtually nonexistent most are sprawled across the steep hills surrounding caracas but the people living up in those walls are barrios that used to be no way to get down. into the city to find work or go to school simply walking down those hills

you think about an hour and a half used to be no public transportation until president obama charges built these cable cars a literal lifeline for venezuelans for life in the slums may have improved but the country still has a long way to go voters have grown frustrated with the declining wages and scarce job prospects and reversing these trends in the next six years won't be easy to see catherine of. venezuela. our correspondent as he often of his posting all the latest news and photos for us on twitter so follow her feed there for the latest updates on what she's calling them as well election after party. now as war looms between turkey and syria after five days of mutual shelling it's still not clear who's firing from the syrian side and there is now a new problem looming for ankara with kurdish separatists reportedly setting up their own army just across the border in syria well it's gets all the latest now from our middle east correspondent paula sleazier hosea paula i'm no reports yet

this monday of any further tillery exchange but is the border tension easing at all . it's it doesn't seem as if the border tension is easing at all what we've witnessed now is five days of increasing conflict along the turkish syrian border at the same time we've seen shelling now taking place from both sides and there's real concern in the region that we could be looking at a full scale war between turkey and syria at the same time it still has not become anybody who exactly is provoking the situation you'll remember that it started last week wednesday when a shell was fired from the syrian side into turkish territory and they were killed five members of the same family now the turkish prime minister erdogan has gone on record by saying that his country is ready for war and this follows the approval of a mandate last week by the turkish parliament in which they did give the green light for cross border operations this they say is to prevent further provocations

from the syrian side but it's not as if the whole turkish population is behind the prime minister on this issue we've witnessed more than five thousand people take to the streets of istanbul last week thursday there they were holding packed cards and chanting no to war in syria is free and we've also what know some of the such demonstrations and rallies in smaller cities and towns throughout all to turkey there has been the renewed clashes on the ground in syria in several cities as well as in several towns in the situation inside syria continues to escalate in this more than eighteen months and more we are also hearing from both the rebels as well as from the damascus government that they are making at vons says but of course it's impossible to verify this information because of the media blackout in that country. wyler's plenty of speculation on who is responsible for firing shells into turkey so what are experts an observer see or. what we're increasingly hearing from many experts who are pointing to the fact that you need to remember that the area

in syria from where these mortars are being fired into turkey are areas that are being controlled by the rebels and that is why many expert opinions are suggesting that they're being flown by deliberately to vogue to key into calling on nato to launch some kind of operation in syria and this is so it is something we've heard from syrian exiled rebel leaders they do want to see foreign intervention the irony of the situation though is that we're now receiving expert opinion that many of the shells that are being fired from syria are in fact being fired by weapons that turkey provided to the rebels to help them fight the assad regime so you have those laws that i want to situation where turkey is being fired on by weaponry that itself supplied to the rebels in addition to those we are also now receiving several reports that the syrian army of the kurdistan workers party is holding an army just fifteen kilometers from the turkish border now the fighting which is

concentrated in northern syria has seen kurds take advantage of the situation there already came to several cities there the capital of telling me they want independence from damascus but they have also now becoming a problem for turkey turkey of course is no stranger to the kurdish problem just overnight turkey's jets were firing at kurdish products in northern iraq so here too you have a situation where turkey in its assistance to the rebels to fight assad is now having to fight we could see and seen in this blatant discrimination in the problem as moral. paul thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update our disposal your reporting there. to other news now as it fights a d. printing recession the british government is looking for a new ways to slash its spanning one of the now i'm ten billion more pounds and welfare cuts made on an already growing wave of discontent and artie's lower emmet reports it's the poorest families find themselves in the firing line. for millions

of children every year hunger is a death sentence this is save the children's usual campaign feeding starving youngsters in africa but times have changed and for the first time in its ninety three year history the charity has launched a major fundraising campaign here in britain and. it's a watershed moment as recession hits the u.k.'s poorest children the hardest situation is pretty bleak for children and families out there in our children having to go without what we consider some basic essentials so for example new shoes when their old ones for now it's achieving a warm coats him winter these are prettiest shocking statistics in the u.k. and twenty twelve and we believe that we really need to take action in glasgow for the first time the cupboard is almost bare for mother of three sharon more it's a daily struggle to provide the basics for her kids whose toes with her. because.

she's not alone three and a half million children are living in poverty in the u.k. and a quarter of their parents say they've gone without meals so their children can eat . a child in poverty has to forgo the things other families take for granted eating healthfully having a friend round for tea days out natalie mother to two year old noah puts all she can afford into the gas meter but it's still not enough to heat their home it's cold but if they. keep warm in the house and blankets rather than turn the fire around oh really so you just can't afford to charities calculate that the poorest ten percent of society i hate thirteen times harder by government cuts to services than the richest ten percent and growing up in poverty puts a child under enormous emotional strain their education suffers even as

a school and that storing up trouble for the future you have imparted to almost children but it's also a massive impact to society and to our economy and so you know we if we. we all of us will have to pay the price in terms of actual spending on education spending on. our economy will be weaker because you know we'll be losing talent what's the point of slashing a welfare budget if we're going to be paying the price for the increased spending we're going to. save the children hopes to help the worst hit families but this could be a long campaign the institute for fiscal studies says in the next ten years based on current government tax and benefit policies eight hundred thousand more children will be dragged into poverty eradicating all the gains that have been made in the

last ten years laura smith r.t. london. and still around this hour here in r.t.e. failed per se and how you have eight of pakistan's most troubled bridges stopped short of its final destination find out why in just a couple of minutes. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is dr run amir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snowy wilderness as a boy here suffering from favre and the doctors are going to see what they can do.

inside a small building not one but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread lana doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and agrees to go that's the usual practice with those who live in the tundra they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native minutes reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest village so a medical problem simply fixed here in the tent that i wish they used to be but now we can go to civilized places so we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air ambulance and being treated the service costs fourteen million dollars a year to run and there's been controversy with some claiming that locals exaggerate or make up health problems and use the helicopters as

a free taxi service because ations vladimir firmly dismisses your brother is not true usually the calls are perfectly justified sometimes we even reproach locals for waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years but let him it was confident that even after he retires his helicopter doctors who remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian far north wealthy british style. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the report on r.t. .

welcome back you're watching arche line from moscow with me marina joshing the standoff continues in libya where government forces have surrounded an opposition stronghold bani walid cutting off all supplies to the city the country's currently ruled by a national general council which has just passed a vote of no confidence in its first elected prime minister for not being able to form a cabinet well you know talk to dr abdul hamid nationally

a member of bani walid social council who's inside the besieged city. now i think you're much for being with us here in the program sir so what is the situation in the bani walid right now. or going to court that there are that if you are going to go there is a goal that people are saying and that will be there are a lot of. them. you know food and drug you ordered their normal can you get our. medical chart is not going to be on the. arm of the rule of law and we could be. more you know. very happy that you'll be formally or we have been through the function i'm good for pool. three if you will be well the international community has backed the

uprising that put the current governments to power so in your opinion what kind of support do you expect from them against the government troops. are continuing what is it again what sort of support do you expect from. the international i mean from the international community that is bad the uprising that pulled a current government to power. did you hear it again yes absolutely just one more time the international community as we know has backed the uprising there and put the current government in power so what sort of support do you expect from them against the government troops by virtually all as us are going to do. with the date of the season of the national congress. which is the function by move on but you will need to have the votes are glad you

are going to be in libya without the kapoor many many organizations of the. region in libya that a lot of things go and you are so struck that the government doing the function i'm going to need but they have nothing to do what should have been was because on the floor of the fickle. big baby gate. because we expect that the national congress of the government you have the three different surfaces come to believe that nothing's. all right dr abdul hamid action only a member of bonnie while the social council thanks very much for being with us here in our. pakistani military has blocked a thousand strong and say u.s. motor convoy on its way towards a volatile tribal belt the motorcade led by a cricket legend and opposition from man am wrong khan was headed to south waziristan a region most frequently targeted by u.s.

drone strikes. to stage a mass rally against american missiles the convoy was joined by dozens of foreign peace activist robert naiman and alice of u.s. foreign policy who took part in the two day protests washington's current stance borders on lawlessness. just about every expert in international law outside the united states will say that you believe that there are at least some aspects of the current both of which are clear violations of international law the bureau of investigative journalism in the u.k. has counted somewhere between four hundred eight hundred civilian deaths since two thousand and four for the u.s. drone strike that's between fifteen and thirty percent the un special rapporteur tour on extradition and execution has said that you know if these reports are true about what the u.s. is doing they would constitute work on the pakistani parliament passed unanimously

a resolution demanding that these drone strikes stop and every pakistani official says that pakistan is against us we have nothing to do with this we're not supporting this doors the u.s. government must be called to account internationally and domestically and explain why they think their policy is legal under international law under u.s. law come clean about the issue of civilian casualties and their own the u.s. is critical of this unilateral definition for its own purposes of what a civilian is of course there's no there's no permission in international law to do that. your tonight you live from moscow and staying in the region a new report in of ghana stamp predicts that nato troops leaving the country could mean a government collapse and even civil war the brussels based international crisis group also says that the next presidential poll in the two years when the alliance plans to leave will be a fraud the afghan government has labelled the predictions garbage and this comes

as the war goes into its twelve year with the taliban issuing a statement that the coalition is on the verge of defeats and is. humiliation. well now russia is launching the second pipeline in the north stream project to ship gas to europe the second lane going through the bottom of the baltic sea will double nordstrom's annual capacity to fifty five billion cubic meters for this us now across to you r t is dmitri medvedev well if you tell us more about this new improvements to the pipeline and why it's so important. well as you said the capacity will now be doubled to reach full level of fifty five billion cubic meters now what that actually means is that it will be enough to provide heat and energy to twenty six million households in europe and also it amounts to around fifty percent of what gazprom right now is transporting through ukraine you see the main

goal of this whole project nord stream which cost seven and a half billion euros and was five years in the making was to bypass countries transit countries like belarus and ukraine which at times have proven to be not so reliable as partners for russia but there are certain issues however with this on one hand gas from right now is proving itself once again as a reliable partner to europe ensuring direct supplies while europe has launched an anti trust approach against gazprom and it wants to change the way gazprom operates in europe basically separating certain of its assets transport from production and sales and on the other hand as the operating company nord stream a.j. has confirmed to us it's a conglomerate of five different investors the capacity of the first slide was only used to around thirty forty percent over the first in just nine billion cubic meters were transported so this all goes down to the fact how gazprom will be able to provide this supply to meet the demand from europe. i mean thanks very

much indeed for this and on the way here in r.t. discover more about life in russia's remote villages through the eyes of one very peculiar resident r.t. special report is coming up. in this remote siberians in which people still sing the sounds which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish the practice church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is sign the area are conservative community they're known as the simi steer a word which refers to families. of the day believe me there yet again i feel

that i now am the right person to do it that. i. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and to show them how to dance in the local star. use of prayer and the girl needs to watch her legs don't go up too much during the dance she must be a modest. seventeen year old nanda is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother. narrating actually. i didn't ask on time for her dad says because i want to keep up to date with this

morning world but still i would like to have camp my very ground home as are some players and this is my treasure their attachment to the church brought not just an sisters to this remote glen and east deflate by call more than two hundred fifty years ago they were exiled in persecuted for not over. i mean to the orthodox who forms introduced in washington the sixteen hundred they wanted to maintain their time honored rituals the old believers still bolland cross themselves with two fingers not with three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying but this fall the city says it's not so much the rituals they cherish as the moral principles he does not approve of what is doing is akin to an old believe a woman must never show her naked legs and this things started to spoil during the soviet union. was more and more young people leaving for big city this year is the all believers culture could be imperiled nowadays young people prefer urban

life to devoting their life to agriculture but it's not necessary to leave the insides for us to remember that and try to keep them alive you know your plans to continue her studies abroad the grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the jews are fresh in her memory so is the culture. nicholai simeonoff has been able to create a noah's ark in a russian village an ordinary postman has become a symbol of mutual assistance and selflessness. we'll check out the first page. think of light driving a tractor have a look at lena. jack of all trades. if

. will now take his heavy bag and head to remote villages where the people eagerly await him as well as letters newspapers and magazines he also brings them food. not even a loaf of bread. he. plays and tangerines. kilogram is enough.